The Rose and Enchanté on the Disney Wish: What We Loved, What We Missed, and What We're Doing Differently
There is a hallway on Deck 12 of the Disney Wish where you turn a corner and stop walking. Not because anything blocks your path, but because of what’s sitting on a pedestal in front of you: a single red rose, the petals just beginning to fall, sealed under a glass dome. Gold lettering on the dark wall behind it reads The Rose.
If you know your Beauty and the Beast, you know exactly what you’re looking at. If you don’t, it doesn’t matter — it stops you anyway. It’s that stunning.
That hallway leads into The Rose, a cocktail bar that sits at the center of the Wish’s adult dining quarter on Deck 12. The whole area is Beauty and the Beast themed, and Disney committed to the bit: The Rose connects to Enchanté by Chef Arnaud Lallement, inspired by Lumière, on one side, and Palo Steakhouse, inspired by Cogsworth, on the other. The Rose is the shared heart of all of it — the place you pass through, or ideally linger in, before sitting down to dinner at either. Last year we walked through it on our way to our Enchanté reservation, admired the rose, and kept moving.
I’ve been thinking about that decision ever since.
The Rose: what I know, what I missed
The Rose is all floor-to-ceiling windows and warm light. It’s elegant without being stiff, the kind of bar that feels like it was designed for a long evening rather than a quick drink. In the early evening it’s quiet, mostly guests waiting to be walked to their tables at Enchanté or Palo. Out-of-the-way enough that it doesn’t get the casual foot traffic of the ship’s other lounges.
I wanted to revisit, but Jim hesitated. He worried it would be rude to occupy a seat in a space clearly full of people waiting for their tables, as though we’d be in the way. That’s a reasonable instinct, but in retrospect it was wrong. The Rose has its own menu, its own identity, and from what I’ve now read about it, a cocktail program that takes the Beauty and the Beast theming seriously.
I have no first-hand notes on any of this because we never did go back that trip.
What I can tell you is that it’s beautiful, the light through those windows at dusk is the kind of thing that makes you reach for your phone, and that we passed through it like a corridor when it deserved to be a destination. Correcting this is definitely on my list for the Destiny.
Enchanté: the experience I wish I’d documented better
We met Barbara in the Rose and were walked into Enchanté proper, to our table. The room is anchored by a chandelier that manages to feel both grand and delicate, which is harder to pull off than it sounds.
The experience is prix fixe with an optional champagne or wine pairing. We opted for the wine tour. I remember that it was excellent. I remember that some of the bottles were genuinely remarkable. I do not, to my lasting regret, remember any of the names — I was too busy enjoying myself to take notes, which felt like the right call at the time and feels like a mistake now.
The food was the same story. The flavors were unlike anything Jim and I had tasted in that combination before. He had been skeptical (Jim approaches highly theatrical fine dining with a certain wariness), and by the end he was quietly admitting that they’d done something there with flavor combinations he hadn’t encountered before. I wish I could tell you specifically what changed his mind. I cannot. I was also busy being delighted.
What I do remember: the service was exceptional in the way that good fine dining service always is, which is to say you were always aware that someone was taking care of you without ever feeling watched or rushed. Every course was explained. Every wine was introduced. They checked in constantly but not in an intrusive or performative way. We felt looked after.
The cheese course was excellent and also a minor source of entertainment: Barbara, who has strong feelings about cheese (she does not like it), stoically accompanied Jim and me through it while sending photographs to Bill (who was not on this sailing and who absolutely would have loved it) to make him jealous. She suffers for the people she loves.
The desserts were a visual moment — an array of small preparations that arrived looking like they belonged in a pastry case. I finally realized I wanted to have pictures of this dinner. Too late, but hopefully not too little. They tasted as good as they looked.
What I’m doing differently on the Destiny
Enchanté is booked for all four adults on the second night of our Destiny sailing. Bill is joining us this time, which means the cheese course finally gets the full audience it deserves.
A few things I’m doing that I did not do last year:
Taking notes on the menu. The full tasting menu, the options given, my reaction to each course in real time. Not a review — just a record. The kind of thing that makes a trip report more than “it was amazing, I can’t remember the details.” Unfortunately we will be passing on the wine this time. Perhaps another sailing.
Getting the names of the people who take care of us. The service team at Enchanté last year was excellent, and I never caught their names. This time I’m asking.
Going to The Rose first. We’re building in time before our reservation to have a drink at the bar. Jim has been persuaded that it is not, in fact, exclusively a waiting room. The cocktail menu is supposedly worth the stop.
I’ll report back with info on the menu, the Rose, and whatever surprises a new ship delivers. The enchanted rose under glass will be the first thing I photograph that night. And this time, I’ll stay long enough to deserve the picture.
The Rose, Enchanté by Chef Arnaud Lallement, and Palo Steakhouse are all adults-only venues on Deck 12 of the Disney Wish and Destiny. Reservations for Enchanté and Palo are required and can be made through the concierge team for guests in concierge staterooms — see our post on the midnight email strategy for how that process works.